EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Talk about a close call!!  :o Today, my dog Joe got more out of his cut vest than I ever thought he would. It wasn't a hog he needed to worry about, it was this rattlesnake. Joe was too inquisitive and the snake tagged him right in the chest. If it weren't for the vest, he would be a dead dog right now. All we had with us as far as guns were 12 gauges loaded with slugs so when I shot him, it didn't leave much left for show. This is whats left of him. It was a western diamondback... and no it's not on the endangered list, that's the eastern diamondback. The easiest way to tell is the black ring(s) at the tail, signifying the western species. He only had about 5 rattles and a button but he made plenty of racket with it.

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only good snake is a dead snake

That is a beautiful Snake! Especially the part with the Big Hole. Glad your dog is OK

I HAVE KILLED THREE I N THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AND A GOOD DOG BIT LAST WEEK BUT HE MADE IT

Way too close for me. One less snake to worry about.

Good thing ur dog got that vest on the smaller
snakes don't know how to put there vemon in
doseidge like the older snakes so there putting
 all venom in to the bite

I know what you mean but that booger wasn't all that small... of course, he wasn't pushing 6 feet either. I shot him twice... the first shot hit him right about in the middle which left his front end still working fine. We decided to shoot him again but this time in the head. Well... with a slug hitting directly in the head and about a foot and a half of his body straight in line with the bullet, a lot of the top half got obliterated. What's left of him is still over 3 foot. His body was bigger around than my wrist for the most part and I'm no little fellow.  ;D Either way, I'm glad it ended the way it did.  :)

Glad he didn't get your dog. Snakes look so much better dead.

Could have been bad.

Man i'll be damned if i wasn't huntin tonight and had a little moskin strike my dog an hit his vest he didn't even know it we chopped his head off an went on but it made me think of this thread pretty nuts

I have wondered if a good vest would stop a snakes fangs, now I know. Glad your dog was alright.

This thread would be good advertisin for the vest dealers, all the coon hunters will want one now, but would be a snake vest instead of cut vest ;D

This reminds me we had a closer call this weekend too.  My buddies girlfriend was hunting with us and climbed over a branch and then one of us was going to do the same thing when we saw the snake.  It was a copper head that was laying right on that branch.  She had just straddled that a second earlier too :o....She got really lucky and so did we that we saw it and did not try our luck a second time.

 :o  :o

Keep em all over there in TX boys....We dont need any of them over here ;D

my dog zeke got bit on the nose last week by a 3 foot cotton mouth.  I shot the snake with my glock .40 and ole zeke swole up pretty big and pulled through just fine. I have always heard that cotton mouths are just as bad as rattlesnakes??? I am just glad zeke was ok. I am a firm believer that a good snake is a dead one. popo

+1

Ran across this picture yesterday of a snake Mike and I killed last year just down the road from LionandBoarhunter.

Funny thing about it, is that the ranch manager had just told us he never sees any snakes out there. ;D Not sure how tall a Shiner bottle is, but you could lay 7 Shiner's end to end. I would guess that puts him awful close to 6 feet.
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